In 2012, a New York school superintendent didn't show up as expected at a conference.

His brother, a former FBI agent, suspected the worst, and he was right.

The police had leads, and it took just one tip

to bring it all together. I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines.

Hello and welcome to crime lines. Before we get started, I just want to send a general thank you to those who

provided me with positive feedback on the last episode about Lita Files. I have passed that on to her daughter,

and we will bring you updates in the case as things progress. Doing a different format than I usually do was a good exercise for those skills in

crafting a story and constructing an episode around interviews and the editing process with that

is so different than what I usually do here on crime lines. So it was nice to know that I can still do those things, but we are back

to our usual format today and for the foreseeable future. And the case we are covering today is one

that I saw a few years ago on a TV show, See No Evil, and it stuck with me. It has been covered on a few

other shows, including Dateline, so it might even be one you're familiar with. We are going to

start with Keith Reed, who was born in June of 1961, in New York, in that area right near the

Pennsylvania border.

For his career, Keith went into education and he enjoyed teaching, but he really wanted

to work as a principal. So he got a second master's degree in administration. He started

teaching in 1984, became an assistant principal in 1997, and then in 2005, he became a principal.

Outside of work, Keith was a devoted father to his three daughters, even after his divorce in 2003,

and even after his promotion meant he had to move to a new city.

Keith worked as a principal for about six years when, in November of 2011,

he moved to the small town of Clymer, New York, to become the superintendent of their school district.

This required Keith to move again, four hours from where he had been living, but at this

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